Book

Poetry vibrates in the cloister of the Library, for the evening dedicated to the verses of Maria Grazia Palazzo, author of the collection "Todo Corde" (La Vita Felice), introduced by the poet Marilena Cataldini. Maria Grazia Palazzo concentrates on the everyday, on the flow of events and, like a meticulous analyst, she dissects the unknown.

Playing with words in the Acchiappalibri garden. Mauro Scarpa presents his illustrated book "Chi l'ha detta" (Zoolibri) with the bookseller Alessandra De Mattia. Page after page we go in search of the person who said... the bad word! The animals try to play innocent but no one escapes Mamma Riccio's investigation...

In the lounge set up in the central cloister of the Library, Antonio Errico presents his latest book, "Salvo casi imprevisti. Saggi casuali e leggeri di un narratore", published by Kurumuny for the Pensieri Meridiani series. Antonio Errico leads us without delay into the deep heart of existence, among archetypal questions and renewed challenges of thought.

An appointment dedicated to poetry at the former Convento degli Agostiniani, with the presentation of an anthology of 106 poems composed by the pupils of the Istituto Comprensivo "Ammirato Falcone" in Lecce. A collection of sonnets, but also free-form poetry, it is the fruit of the creative writing course held during the school year by Alessandro Macchia, the young authors' Italian teacher.

Amélie Nothomb, the Belgian-born cult author who, at the age of just 23, topped the bestseller lists with her breakthrough novel "Hygiene and the Assassin", is a guest at the literary festival "Armonia. Narrazioni in Terra d'Otranto" literary festival, conceived and organised by Libreria Idrusa and the NarrAzioni association, under the artistic direction of the writer Mario Desiati.

A rich evening in the Library for Extraconvitto. At 8 pm, the appointment is with Mario Cazzato and Stefano Margiotta, authors of the book "Idume e altre storie d'acqua" (Primiceri Editore). The book traces the historical stages of water supply and the transformation of Lecce's hydrogeological landscape.

Twenty stories about running, twenty human portraits full of humour and irony. This is the book by the writer and actor Fausto Romano "Corro da quando. Confessioni umoristiche di runners come te". (Faust - cinema teatro scrittura), presented at the Bernardini Library.

Lecce, 2035. On a rainy February afternoon Mr and Mrs Cazzella are forced indoors by a violent storm. To pass the time, Marco suggests that his wife Stefania and his daughter Maria Teresa could read the second novel "born" from his whimsical pen.

Author of the series about the policewoman Lolita Lobosco, which became a TV drama for Rai 1, Gabriella Genisi presents "La regola di Santa Croce" (Rizzoli) at the former Convento degli Agostiniani, with Valentina Nicolì and Marcella Rizzo. In her latest novel, Chicca Lopez must solve a mystery...

The evening at the Library opens Walter Spennato, who will talk about the experience of the "Casa per la Vita - Artemide" in Racale, a residence welcoming people with psychosocial problems, who cannot live alone. At 9 pm, Camillo Robertini and the journalist Massimo Melillo will present Robertini’s essay "Quando la Fiat parlava argentino.